Some impromptu health care provided by a SoCal congressman: Opinion

And the health care “improvements” coming out of Washington these days are not going as well as was hoped.

But one freshman congressman from Southern California, Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Springs, took health care into his own hands today. He aided a woman who suffered a medical emergency during a flight from Washington, D.C., to Dallas, according to KCBS-TV.

Ruiz, an emergency room physician before he was elected to Congress, was one of two doctors on board who stabilized the woman before the American Airlines plane made an emergency landing in Raleigh, N.C.

Another congressman on the flight, Pete Gallego, D-Texas, tweeted, “Hope @CongressmanRuiz is on all my flights home! An emergency room dr by training, was impressive to see him in action. He saves lives!”